3/12 report

[dprice]

Lmao If your on plane  you will have to split boats and pull a Gerald Swindell     -   As they are drifting and trolling  -  some ones gonna get a scuff in there rig 

I'd be proud if   You'd put a few musky in and  let them thin them carp  for me       

 

That big foot is hilarious     Haha great post 

[Bitethis]

20 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

It's actually Fellows lake. Fellows lake is sometimes fed from Stockton and it also feeds into Stockton. It would be possible for a musky to escape Fellows and eventually make it closer to Stockton I guess. Couple of obstacles but it's possible.

Or I could catch one in Pomme and deposit it into Stockton.

Springfield lake, yes...that is what I meant.

[MOPanfisher]

Talked to a buddy who used to work at Stockron, said they get reports or 3 or 4 musky a year on Stockton.

[BilletHead]

  So does your buddy know where they came from? I think it is neat there a few being caught but it would be neater to know the story of how they got there,

BilletHead

[dprice]

With people seigning there own bait   For crappie  and white season It could actually happen  to be introduced !

fine looking bait to me ? 

[MOPanfisher]

No just that it wasn't too rare.

[Rick E]

Stockton used to be stocked with Northern pike in the early 70's.  I remember catching them as a 10 to 12 year old kid, they had to be at least 28" or 32" to keep, I can't remember the exact length.  We used to fish for them with steel leaders and I can remember getting a huge one up to the boat and it breaking my steel leader.   They quit stocking them but I would imagine a few might have survived and spawned over the years.  Musky and pike look similar, so it could be a leftover Northern but who knows for sure.  They were numerous in the early to mid 70's. 

[dembones]

I wonder if it could have been a pickerel  also......I caught a small mouth up the Lindley arm at pomme last week.  I have fished it for forty years and it was the first.  mdc said it might have come down from the big flood at the first of the year.......maybe could be the same with a pickerel....idk

[Walleyedmike]

 

10 hours ago, dembones said:

I wonder if it could have been a pickerel  also......I caught a small mouth up the Lindley arm at pomme last week.  I have fished it for forty years and it was the first.  mdc said it might have come down from the big flood at the first of the year.......maybe could be the same with a pickerel....idk

A 33" pickerel would be pretty rare. According to the MDC website, the Missouri state record pole and line pickerel was caught in 1974 and weighed 5lbs 1 oz. A 33" pickerel would smash that record. My guess is the fish was a musky that made its way into Stockton from Fellows Lake. Maybe a few fertilized eggs or fry could make it? I'm not familiar with what obstacles are between the lakes.

WM

[Bill B.]

Musky have occasionally been caught in Stockton for years. I'd put my money on overflow stocking from Fellows. High water would easily bring them down the river.

Tiger musky and northern pike are other possibilities. Quite a few people stock tiger muskies and/or pike in their own lakes. Both species are available from private fish hatcheries right here in Missouri, as are pure-strain muskies. High water can easily flush them downstream into bigger lakes. Here's a link to a hatchery near Macon that carries musky and pike in the fall:

http://www.harrisonfishery.com/speciesEcoSys.htm

Just about any kind of fish can turn up in any body of water in the state.